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Sep 1, 2024
I wish there was a genre or a tag to warn people about this type of content. I'd just call it nonsense, but as surprising as it is I realize now that just like in drawing, poetry, music or other mediums, anime also has people that would call any sort of nonsense an art. So I guess something like Dementia or Delirium or Surrealism could be more appropriate to not totally out those people. Still, there must be something to mark it as inappropriate for normal sane viewers.

A part of this nonsense is literally explained in-universe as a delirium from having a high fever. But ...
Mar 3, 2024
Kaizoku Oujo (Anime) add
You know the "three episode rule"? This show was a clear 10/10 at that point. Hell, I didn't even need three episodes, just a single scene from episode 1 of our goofy princess's "escape plans" or even a single frame of her angry expression was enough to win me over.

It would have been a great show it it was actually about that goofy princess, or about travel and adventures, or about pirates vs. ninjas, or solving a legendary mystery, or any of the things the start of the show leads you to believe it is about. Instead, all those things turn out to be irrelevant, ...
Jan 12, 2024
Mieruko-chan (Anime) add
I remember stumbling upon the manga a while ago, slightly intrigued by the premise after having read "Sore wa Rei no Shiwaza desu".
My thoughts back then were that it seemed interesting at first glance but potentially quite unpleasant if dragged out. I skimmed through the chapters and there were no hints of the heroine making any progress in overcoming her situation. I decided that I neither wanted to suffer through an endless "daily-horror" psychological torture myself, nor even cope with empathizing with a heroine suffering through that. So I dropped it.

For the same reasons I didn't have high hopes for the anime as well. ...
Oct 9, 2023
FunnyFunny
Preliminary (4/12 eps)
This is pretty bad. It's about an eternally grinning idiot kid stumbling his way through a zombie apocalypse just thanks to convenient writing and plot armor. It has NTR in episode 1, it has a blooming naked bromance while every potential female love interest that's not in the OP song is killed off along with all episodic characters, sometimes inches from the mc without him doing anything and worst of all, him forgetting about it 5 minutes later and going on to grin and spout bs like he'll save people from zombies as if what just happened no longer counts because it was in the ...
Jun 20, 2023
Isekai is gonna be isekai no matter what. Some shows pretend to be different with some twist or other at first, but ultimately they all end up the same. Same old tropes and cliches we've seen a million times are inevitably going to be here again. If you expected different, then I guess you must be new to anime or I don't know what could be wrong with you.

I loved the first season of this one exactly for not pretending to be what it is not, but instead running with the tropes that are center stage of the genre. Save the princess, marry the princess, ...
Apr 1, 2023
Overlord IV (Anime) add
Complete waste of time. I really can't imagine how this season can claim to cover 3 whole volumes of the source light novel when all its content boils down to a showoff joke of a "war" and little else. I guess it just means the light novels are not any good either. There is only one noteworthy event in all of it, the so to say "origin story" of a potentially interesting character combo in the future, Princess Renner and her pet.

There are also a few other countries which the MC accidentally conquers as he stumbles around, but that feels just like a side ...
Mar 31, 2023
Overlord III (Anime) add
Since this is season III already, writing or reading reviews is quite pointless. What else do you expect them to say than simply "more of the same"?

If you watched the previous ones and found them at least somewhat bearable, you will watch this one as well regardless of reviews.

I actually thought this season started much stronger than the last one. No silly lizard love stories and soap operas, no pointless battles between hard-to-keep-track-of characters and downright made-up villains... Until suddenly, the utterly stupid and annoying "Foresight" arc happened. So of course the score for this season can not be anything but 1.
Mar 31, 2023
"The nothing isekai"

A show literally filled with nothingness. It borrows some ideas from various other shows, then does nothing with them.

First up of course is the farming aspect, since it's already right there in the title. Well, it's just as interesting as one wave of the hand with a magical "All-purpose Farming Tool", then pretending you actually did some work. Nothingness incarnate.

Then for another example, it pretends to have a harem aspect at first, with tons of different races and personalities for the waifus-to-be, directly talking about how they need to repopulate their tribes and stuff, then we just see the MC complain about ...
Mar 22, 2023
A weird bad mix of mostly good things.

Half of the show is a good run-of-the-mill fantasy, showing potential with a mix of quest-of-the-week filler, save-the-world overarching plot, interesting characters with character-specific intro or origin story episodes and goals of their own (i.e. side quests to earn loyalty points) and so on. Unfortunately, in this season we only get the intros and quest-of-the-week, while the other elements are just hinted at for the future. Bummer.

Another 15% of the show is an epic ancient intelligent magical-swords conflict and collection saga with a weird main hook of MC's sword being Yu-Gi-Oh's Polymerization card and giving them hero fusion. ...
Feb 20, 2023
tl;dr: chuunibyou's wet dream made manifest
tl;dr. 2: according to a poll I made on the forums, "have you ever fantasized of saving your school from terrorists?", at least 65% of users will love this show, so go watch it.

This show is the closest I've ever seen an anime get to the essence of teenage boys' fantasies. I know we've had the genre of overpowered-main-character isekai power-fantasy since forever, but it's never seemed this perfect to me before.

In its essence, the show is still the "same old" representative of the genre. Our main character breaks some of the conventions by actually training to become quite ...


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